"God's Acre."—Benson's Tavern.—Interview with a Builder of Stony Point Fort.—View from Smith's House
many years ago for a neighborhood burial-place. Its numerous white slabs proclaimed an already populous city of the dead, and ere long another generous hand should donate an acre near for the same purpose.
"I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial-ground God's Acre! It is just.
It consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
God's Acre! Yes, that blessed name imparts
Comfort to those who in the grave have sown
The seed that they had garner'd in their hearts,
Their bread of life, alas! no more their own."